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Hi Justin

Fuzzy indeed - I think the HS article is kind of marketing FUDdy (they are selling pretty-good Java-based reporting tools that can run on the i, after all) - AFP Utilities is no longer supported after 7.2, but AFP itself is not going away. Is it as convenient to use it? Maybe not, so far as creating resources is concerned. There is now, since maybe 5.4, a PRTF keyword, AFPRSC, that lets us use IFS image files to put images on SPLF output - it generally works really well, but support in Host Print Transform come out only in 7.2 - but only in HP-compatible manufacture/model setups. The TIFF Host Print Transform does NOT support the AFPRSC keyword at this time - problematic for vendor product that use the TIFF *WSCST to convert SPLFs to TIFF, then create PDFs - I think most of the products that convert to PDF are in this state.

CPYSPLF now gives very effective conversions to PDF - and there are PSF facilities, as I am told, and haven't yet worked with.

The IBM article mentions other products that can work with AFP - I don't think any of them are native to IBM i, and we certainly do not want to utilize yet another Windows server (YAWS) to convert images to AFP source with the driver or to run another application.

Regards
Vern

On 7/25/2019 12:09 PM, Justin Taylor wrote:
That's kind of fuzzy.
https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1022140



-----Original Message-----
From: Raul Jager [mailto:raul@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2019 11:36 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Free form for a printer and o specs

PRTF can print beautiful reports, but the manual DDS for printer files has no new features since 7.2, output specs for printer have no free version, Does that means they are being replaced?

Printer files with overlays are great for existing application Are they a good option for new apps?

Is this FUD?
https://www.helpsystems.com/blog/3-step-guide-replacing-afp-utilities



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